Let me tell you guys my idea of a perfect Christmas. You wake up like it's any other day—it might not feel like December 25, it might even feel like, say, August 27—you go to work, you eat your sandwich, you shoulder life's banality with the resignation of a much older woman, and then...someone sends you a link. You…

The evolution-creationism debate has returned to Dayton, Tennessee—the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Except this time, the venue is not a courtroom but a Christian college, where faculty members have resigned and students have mounted protests. The issue? Whether Adam and Eve were the progenitors of humanity.

A Santorum campaign staffer who wrote that he believes that children would be harmed if a woman became the leader of the State and thus The Lord in his Almighty Electoral Wisdom would never allow a woman to rise to the office of President has refused to recant or apologize for his antiquated views, saying it was a…